Ashton-Tate

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Ashton-Tate Corporation

Industry	Software
Founded	August 1980; 44 years ago (1980-08)
Founder	George Tate, Hal Lashlee
Defunct	October 1991; 33 years ago (1991-10)
Fate	Acquired
Successor	Borland
Headquarters	Torrance, California , US
Products	dBASE, Framework, MultiMate, InterBase, RapidFile, and more
Number of employees	1,750

Ashton-Tate Corporation was a US-based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application and later acquiring Framework from the Forefront Corporation and MultiMate from Multimate International. It grew from a small garage-based company to become a multinational corporation. Once one of the "Big Three" software companies, which included Microsoft and Lotus, the company stumbled in the late 1980s and was sold to Borland in September 1991.